Isaiah 9:5 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 9:5

For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.

KJV

For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

For every violent plunder with tumult: and the garment mingled with blood shall be for burning, and food for the fire. LXX: For every garment rolled in blood is for burning, fuel for the fire.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For every battle of the warrior - The expression used here has caused great difficulty, from the fact that it occurs nowhere else in the Scriptures. The word סאון se'ôn, rendered here battle, is supposed to mean rather greaves, or the armor of the warrior which covered the feet and the legs. It would be literally translated, ‘Every greave of those armed with greaves.’ - Gesenius.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֤י	ki	for	H3588 →
כָל־	khol-	every	H3605 →
סְאוֹן֙	se.'On	boot	H5430 →
סֹאֵ֣ן	so.'En	[which] marches	H5431 →
בְּרַ֔עַשׁ	be.Ra.'ash	with shaking	H7494 →
וְשִׂמְלָ֖ה	ve.sim.Lah	and cloak	H8071 →
מְגוֹלָלָ֣ה	me.go.la.Lah	rolled	H1556 →
בְדָמִ֑ים	ve.da.Mim	in blood<s>	H1818 →
וְהָיְתָ֥ה	ve.ha.ye.Tah	and it will be	H1961 →
לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה	lis.re.Fah	for burning	H8316 →
מַאֲכֹ֥לֶת	ma.'a.Kho.let	fuel of	H3980 →
אֵֽשׁ׃	'Esh	a fire	H784 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 46:9
He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.
leads to
- Isaiah 2:4
  Then He will judge between the nations and arbitrate for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against…
- Micah 4:3–4
  Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take…
- Micah 5:10
  “In that day,” declares the LORD, “I will remove your horses from among you and wreck your chariots.
- Joshua 11:9
  Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.
- Isaiah 60:18
  No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
Through
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
leads to
- 1 Peter 4:17
  For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
- 2 Peter 3:7
  And by that same word, the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men.
- Hebrews 10:27
  but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume all adversaries.

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